Do you feel like you are NEVER going to make it as a developer?

Many times I have students that think they are never going to make it as a developer. Many people feel that because they cannot bust out an entire application from memory that they are phony and not a real developer.

Storing a user’s name or other personal information in the AspNetUsers table can be very useful. In this post I am going to show how to add FirstName and LastName columns to the AspNetUsers table and then pull that information out when a user signs in.

GitHub: Custom Identity Management

I got tired of the hassle with IdentitySample and created my own alternative that will initialize the DB, add a default administrator and provide user and role management but without all the extra unnecessary file modifications.

Software Error vs Exception – In Real World Examples

After 15+ years of software development, I still use the words error and exception interchangeably.
But is there a difference between exceptions and errors?
I think it is best to make the distinction with some examples of errors vs exceptions.